Standard capacity product outage reporting

The April 30, 2010 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order (Docket No. ER10-319-000) requires Eligible Intermittent Resources, such as wind and solar, that have a maximum output capability of 10 megawatts or greater to report outages of 1 MW and greater, effective July 1, 2010. This results in inconsistencies in how Standard Capacity Product non-availability charges and availability payments affect intermittent resources and non-intermittent resources. As part of the June 22, 2010 Standard Capacity Product Phase II tariff amendment filing to FERC, the California ISO proposed to incorporate forced outages of wind and solar resource adequacy resources in the calculation of Standard Capacity Product availability standards and metrics. The ISO initiated this stakeholder process to standardize outage reporting requirements for wind, solar and all other resource adequacy resources for purposes of Standard Capacity Product availability calculations.